UK National Lotto #860

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 20th March 2004:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,935,128	1	£5,935,128	35.6%
5+bonus	£304,365	6	£1,826,190	11.0%
5 match	£2,305	495	£1,140,975	6.8%
4 match	£91	27,479	£2,500,589	15.0%
3 match	£10	527,095	£5,270,950	31.6%
Totals	555,076		£16,673,832	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.5% fall	£37,077,018	63.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.6% fall	£21,112,322	36.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.5% fall	£58,189,340

Lotto HotPicks #178 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	24	£168,000	19.1%
Pick 3	£450	686	£308,700	35.2%
Pick 2	£40	10,022	£400,880	45.7%
Totals	10,732		£877,580	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £81.77.

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.

		Updated Frequencies			Since Last Appeared
Drawn	Order	Main	Bonus	Total	Main	Bonus	Either
1st	46	110	18	128	2	53	2
2nd	48	112	14	126	5	191	5
3rd	13	87	11	98	9	161	9
4th	21	92	24	116	7	35	7
5th	37	95	23	118	3	24	3
6th	42	96	18	114	1	16	1
Bonus	22	97	23	120	6	3	3
Total	229	689	131	820	33	483	30
Avg.	32.7	98.4	18.7	117.1	4.7	69.0	4.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.04. One in every 66.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.50% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,535,887.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 10 wins totalling £100.

From Saturday 12th July 2003 onwards, Camelot has completely refused to issue per-draw sales figures for any of their individual games, despite continuously doing so for more than 8 years prior to that date. They blamed the media for only concentrating on the main Lotto game sales (which have been falling steadily for years), which seems to be a poor excuse to me. However, games with variable prize tiers such as the main Lotto can have their sales figures reverse-calculated to within a few pounds, which is what I have done.

Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 16th September 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #861 (Wednesday 24th March 2004) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #859 (Wednesday 17th March 2004) [2 jackpot winners]

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